The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-09-01


legal PROFESSIONALISM are they doing
now? Studying law in a universe
where everything is controlled by law
from fight of humming-bird to flight
of world-law, not dry and hard
| and drudging, but righteous and magnif-
icent law, before which man and cherub
| and seraph and archangel and God him.
self bow. The chain of law long enough
| to wind around the immensities and in
| finity and eternity. Chain of law. What
place to study law, where all the links Of
| the chain are in the hand
What are our departed Christian friends
who in this world had their joy in the
healing art, doing now? Busy at their old
| business. No sickness in Heaven, but
| plenty of sickness on earth, plenty of
| wounds in the different parts of Gods
| dominion to be healed and to be medicated.
| You can not understand why that patient
got we'll after all the skillful doctors
of New York and Brooklyn had said he
must die. Perhaps Abercrombie touched
him-Abercrombie,w who, after many years.
doctoring the bodies and the souls of peo-
| pie in Scotland, went up to God in 1874.
Perhaps Abercrombie touched him.
l should not wonder if my old friend, DR..
John Brown, who died in Edinburgh
John Brown, the author of "Rab and His
Friends"-John Brown, who was as hum
BILE a Christian as he was skillful
| physician and world-renowned author I
should not wonder if he had been back
again and again to see some of his old
patients. Those who had their joy in
healing the sickness and the woes of earth,
| gone up to Heaven, are come forth again
for benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found their
chief joy in conversation and sociability
doing now? In brighter conversation there
and in grander society.
What place to visit in, where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens. You
yourselves kingly and queenly. If they
| want to know more particularly about the
first paradise, they have only to go over
and ask Adam. If they want to know how
| the sun and the moon halted, they have
only to go over and ask Joshua. If they
want to know how the storm pelted Sodom,
they have only to go over and ask Lot. II
they want to know more about the AFRO
gance of Hannah, they have only to go
over and ask Mordecai. If they want to
know how the Red Sea boiled when
it was cloven, they have only
to go over and ask Moses. If they want
to know the particulars about the
Bethlehem advent, they have only to go
over and ask the serenading angels who
stood that Christmas night in the ball
comics of crystal. If they want to know
more of the particulars of the crucifixion,
they have only to go over and ask those
who were personal spectators while the
mountains crouched and the Heavens got
black in the face at the spectacle. If they
| want to know more about the sufferings Of
the Scotch Covenanters, they have only to
go over and ask Andrew Melville. If they
want to know more about the old time
revivals, they have only to go over and
ask Whitefield, and Wesley, and Living
ston, and Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Fin
ney. O!what place to visit in.
IT eternity were one minute shorter il
would not be long enough for such social
ity. Think of our friends who in this
world were passionately fond of flowers,
turned into paradise! Think Of our friends
who were very fond of raising superb
fruit, turned into the orchard where each
tree has twelve kinds of fruit at once, and
bearing fruit all the year roundl
What are our departed Christian friends
doing in Heaven, those who on earth
found their chief joy in the Gospel minis
try? They are visiting their old congrega-
tions Most of those ministers have got
their people around them already. When
l get to Heaven-as by the grace of God
am destined to go that place. will come
and see you all. Yea, I will come to all
the people to whom have administered in
the Gospel, and to the millions Of
souls to whom, through the kindness of the
printing press. I am permitted to preach
every week in this land, and in other lands
letters coming from New Zealand and
Australia, and uttermost parts of the
earth, as well as from near nations, telling
me OF the souls have helped-I will visit
} them all. I give them fair notice. Our
departed friends Of the ministry are en-
gagged in that delectable entertainment
now.
But what are our departed Christian
friends who, in all departments of useful
ness were busy, finding their chief joy in
doing good-what are they doing now?
Going right along with the work. John
Howard visiting dungeons; the dead wo-
men of Northern and Southern battle
fields still abroad looking for the wounded;
[ George Peabody still watching the poor;
, Thomas Clarkson still looking after the
i, enslaved-all of those who did good on
earth buster since death than before.
The tombstone not the terminus, but the
starting post. What are our departed
, Christian friends, who found their chief
joy in studying God, doing now? Studying
God yeS. No need of revelation now, for
unblanched they are face to face. Now,
they can handle the omnipotent thunder
bolts just as a child handles the sword of
father come back from victorious battle.
They have no sin, nor fear consequently.
Studying Christ, not through revelation,
save the revelation of the scars, that deep
/ lettering which brings it all up quick
enough. Studying the Christ of the Beth
, lehem caravansary, the Christ of the
awful massacre with it's hemorrhage of
} head, and hand, and foot, and side-the
! Christ of the shattered mausoleum-Chris
. the sacrifice, the star, the sun, the man,
! the God, the Goldman, the man-God.
} But bark the bell of the cathedral rings
the cathedral bell of heaven.
What is the matter now? There is going
: to be meeting in the temple. Worshipers
all come through the aisles. Make room
, for the conqueror. Christ standing in the
temple. All heaven gathering around Him.
j, Those who loved the beautiful come to look